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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of small, not prestigious, not selective D3 schools give everybody tons of merit aid.

D3 schools can't give sports scholarships, but I assume this family is betting that you don't know that so that is why they are bragging this way.

It is possible that they receive some extra merit aid compared to the next person for some leadership award or something like that which mysteriously always goes to athletes.[/quote]

This. A school may give merit, perhaps it is for sports achievement, but it is not a sports scholarship. I worked in the business office for work-study @ a regionally prestigious D3 overall and nationally in certain fields for four years and saw every student's financials. A number of athletes had merit awards. Some were also outstanding students, others were meh.

Some folks just can't help themselves and need to gab about everything. Or they hear what they want to hear and "merit" becomes "sports scholarship" in their mind. They have a narrative and they shape everything to it.

Regarding the kid's athletic prowess, perhaps they are not an outstanding athlete, but they may be good enough and fill a now vacant role on the team. We have friends with a son who is a very talented soccer player. The deal is that there were not a ton of openings for his spot for this upcoming school year at the schools in the academic range where they were looking. And where there were openings, there were players with better grades, etc. competing with him. Their kid may have gotten lucky.[/quote]

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